[mdchiefsfan]

Originally Posted by DanT

Yes. The store is making a deal with you. You can take the cart to your car or to the bus stop or where ever, to save you the burden of carrying your load, with the expectation that after dropping off your load you will put the cart somewhere that it can be retrieved by store employees eventually, without unduly jeopardizing the property of others while the cart is awaiting retrieval.

The cart corral is specifically designed to be used to store carts safely. If it can be used safely, then carts can be returned there. If the corral is full or if the weather is so bad that corralled carts could reasonably expected to become a risk to property, then the corral should not be used and the cart should be returned somewhere else safe.

I have zero doubt that there are lots of folks in the world who always return their carts and who will also remove stray carts from the parking lot, because that's something that I do, and I don't think of it as particularly virtuous. That's just common decency.

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